CVE-2023-28711
Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel(R) before...
Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel(R) before version 5.4.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel(R) before version 5.4.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
- Record
CVE-2023-28711- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-691
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2023-32349
Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel(R) before version 5.4.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
- Record
EUVD-2023-32349- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-95ch-mqcf-w529
Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel(R) before...
Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel(R) before version 5.4.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
- Record
GHSA-95ch-mqcf-w529- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-670, CWE-691
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel(R) before version 5.4.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.
- Record
CVE-2023-28711- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Weakness
- CWE-691, CWE-670
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVOESA-2023-1609
hyperscan security update
Hyperscan is a high-performance multiple regex matching library. It follows the regular expression syntax of the commonly-used libpcre library, but is a standalone library with its own C API.
Security Fix(es):
Insufficient control flow management in the Hyperscan Library maintained by Intel(R) before version 5.4.1 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via local access.(CVE-2023-28711)
- Record
OESA-2023-1609- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
| Package | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|
hyperscanopenEuler:20.03-LTS-SP1 |
before 5.4.2-1.oe1 | 5.4.2-1.oe1 |
hyperscanopenEuler:20.03-LTS-SP3 |
before 5.4.2-1.oe1 | 5.4.2-1.oe1 |
hyperscanopenEuler:22.03-LTS |
before 5.4.2-1.oe2203sp2 | 5.4.2-1.oe2203sp2 |
hyperscanopenEuler:22.03-LTS-SP1 |
before 5.4.2-1.oe2203sp1 | 5.4.2-1.oe2203sp1 |
hyperscanopenEuler:22.03-LTS-SP2 |
before 5.4.2-1.oe2203sp2 | 5.4.2-1.oe2203sp2 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2023-28711 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) in Intel Hyperscan Library, published August 11, 2023. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.17%, the 6th percentile. Fixed in hyperscan 5.4.2-1.oe1.